Improvement in clothes-pins



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

L, RALPH EMERSON, OF ROOKFORD, ILLINOIS.

MPROVEM ENT IN CLOTHES-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,751, dated June 1l, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH EMERSON, of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOlothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is cheaply and simply to manufacture a clothes-pin which can readily be placed upon or released from the line without injury to itself or to the clothes upon the line. L In the acompanying drawing, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved pin, about to be placed upon or removed from the line; Fig. 2, a like representation of the same when in position upon the line; Fig. 3, -a view in elevation of my improved pin partly formed. Fig. 4 represents a similar view of a nished pin. Fig. 5 represents a transverse section thereof in the line x :v of Fig. 4, as hereinafter described.

In making my pins I take an oblong block,

vA, and make an oblique cut, c b, in one end thereof, extending inward from' one edge past the center line of the block. I then make a similar cut, c d, intersecting the rst one, as shown in the drawing. I then make a central longitudinal out, e f, passing through the two oblique cuts at their point of intersect-ion. The jaws and legs of the pin are formed by these three cuts, the triangular space z' being the part which clasps the line; thus forming the pin in a very simple, cheap, and expeditious manner.

The legs may be made elastic by thinning them, as shown in Fig. 4.

The jaws h h are beveled at jj by a chisel,

(see Fig. 5,) and form straight inclines, that enable the pin to be readily removed and i,

placed in position by applying the pin sidewise to the line, as shown in Fig. 1.

Heretofore the jaws of the pin have been rounded for a similar purpose, and were formed by a barring-tool, which is not so ,easily done nor so effectual in operation as a scribed my name.

RALPH EMERSON. Witnesses:

CLARA GooDALL, WILLIAM A. TALcoTT. 

